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1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

I want a peloton.  I was actually in my best shape when I used to bike every day.  Hill climbing and distance, even gravel back road riding.  Biking is low impact and just a great workout.

She is/was an avid road biker but after a few close calls around here I think she might be done with it. Just too many distracted drivers. Great workout with low impact sums it up, it's a "good type of sore" the next day. 

19 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I’m going to have to soon.  Takes a lot of effort to go up the mountains every day in order to have a couple beers lol.

I find it easier to go down the mountain after a couple. For example, I did my MCL after snagging a tree on the bobsled track out to the 19th hole at Mad River. Went down to the lodge pounded Lawson SOSs until I didn't notice it, then proceeded to lap the stuff out past Paradise. Great day! Next day and weeks sucked though lol

18 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

About 20 miles per week for me does the trick . Have to burn the calories no doubt 

I used to do 3 10ks a week to stay in shape for hockey, but after a year I started feeling it in my ankles and knees. Think I am just not built for it. My wife recently decided to pull the trigger on a peloton and I now understand the hype and probably use it more than she does. 

4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

 

4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

What could possibly go wrong dropping that? lol

Side note, I had to get a new saw this spring. After years of Husqvarna I decided to try Stihls. Both obviously do the trick. Then I tried the Echo Timberwolf. HOLY @#%^.  Same price, feels like a ton more power, and a 5 year warranty. I never would have thought they could make a saw that competes with the two big names but they have. Would highly recommend. 

No discussion?!

The Bassmaster Elite Series is on Champlain Thurs-Sun. Pretty fun to watch and see how little has changed since I last fished it 10 years ago. Weights seem to be coming back a bit from a few down years in 2015-2018.

https://www.bassmaster.com/video/bassmaster-live-mix

St. Lawrence River next week will be tons of 4-6lbs smallies and big waves.

9 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Just because CT’s Africa-tier infrastructure is “heavily damaged” by certain storms does not mean that those storms were necessarily very strong or damaging themselves. 

I feel like this time last week we could toss everything HRRR after how poorly it had been doing. Then it sucks you back in after doing OK with Tues-Weds. 12z NAM is back down to earth a bit imo. 

Interesting combination of factors. Over 4" of rain so far this month. Trees have been uprooting with minimal wind (e.g., gusts 30-35mph) from these thunderstorms. I'll be curious to see what more rain and wind does. In the past week here are dozens of new trees lining the shores of the Quabbin.

58 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Flooding is my irresponsible douche lust for excitement aspect of Met. I don't care to be in heat or ice or snow or whatever so much.  And I don't want the flood IN my basement, no... but it really is cool to look at. 

For some reason, the specter of play-ground slides barely sticking out of the water, with bottom limbs of bear-by sugar maples a mere 6 inches above the water level - haha..

We don't really get that around here unless it's like next to a river doing a Housatonic falls act... Which can be cool too -

Some of the mill towns along the Merrimack up in Lowell and Lawerence get pretty interesting ... 2005? 

After living through the March 2010 events in RI I'm all set. Rather deal with an ice storm as long as I have my wood stove. I lived above a liquor store at the time and URI cancelled classes for the week so I ended up running pumps and shop-vacs all week in the warehouse. Then you have to wake up every hour or so to make sure things are pumping. We had massive spikes in crime (e.g., shop lifting, home break-ins, vandalism) since all the police are busy blocking off roads. Business owners were standing guard at their stores 24/7.. That week Coventry and West Warwick were like living in a Mad Max-era.

8 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

 

24 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Have to assess that radar further but it's possible that could have been a gustnado 

Gustnado lol. We all know what it really was.

Might drive up to the Rt. 2 area later on, NAM wants to crush it. 

Random: Found this chart yesterday on microbursts and found it interesting.

https://www.weather.gov/media/lmk/soo/pulse_svr_flowchart.pdf

What was up with the winds late last night? Heard them around 1am and ended up having a good sized limb come down, took out some of the tomato plants in our garden and snapped a wall of our raised bed, 

Decent winds when it came through Belchertown. Rt. 21 closed due to trees down in the south part of town as well as some side streets. 

Wouldn't be surprised if someone in Mass/CT/RI got a "burst" today. 

Obligatory weenie image given my statement:

54 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Maniacs

Some pretty wild videos of it coming across Long and Great Pond. It seems like a sneaky good severe weather area. Might be moving up there next year, Great Pond has some of the better bass fishing in New England. 

3 minutes ago, CT Valley Snowman said:

He's out in Heath with friends. He should have an interesting ride home.

For sure. Some rotation on velocity approaching Florida/Berkshire East area.

@HIPPYVALLEY about to get blown away?

24 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I wonder what the 12z actual soundings look like.

Regional hi res vis loop sat coverage is impressively barren SE of a baroclinic cloud swipe over far NW/St L Seaway - there's not even early fractal CU there despite 88 to 92 F by 10:30 am.  

DPs may be 2 to 3 off yesterday at this time, but still in the upper 60s, but the LC level should have more fractals. 

also, I wonder if there is CIN/'cap' in in the region.  Noted, 588 dam isohypses still runs roughtly PIT-PWM so, we may need some recession/ .. falls to commence - that could be interesting as a "release" type of initiation.   Pretty cool, you see a CU, go get a soda, and by the time you get back it's a cotton ball with overshooting hot tower expanding -

Great post. I ended up just going down a "Loaded Gun Theory" rabbit hole. 

59 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

yeah the plan is to probably go into MA. Maybe around Springfield. 

Drive an extra 25 minutes NE to the Old Enfield Lookout around the Quabbin. There is also the stone tower at the top for a better view. Can see west to Greylock, north to Monadnock, and east to Wachusett. 

5 minutes ago, CT Valley Snowman said:

I was in that storm but about 1.5 mi south of the core , it was pretty intense and you could tell just to the north they were getting rocked.  

It was amazing to see it blow up in real time. This is looking south at it. 

45 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

HRRR looks meh

Yea keeps the high MLCAPE to that RI/SE Mass area but doesn't fire much up.